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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ As a mental health professional working out of NIH, I've treated more than a few dangerously stressed out adolescents who appear to be thriving at high octane area high schools.  I find that parents and educators have a strong tendency to assume that doing well in school and college equates to good mental health.  You see kids and 20-somethings who soar academically yet suffer emotionally.

The recent documentary Race to Nowhere is an eye-opener on the subject.

Does anybody know what sort of counseling and mental health support Basis DC is providing to kids who need it?

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Why the need to speculate, extrapolate, opine and hypothesize like this?  There IS empirical information out there.

Basis has 8 schools in Arizona now, many of them running for several years already, going back to 1998 and 2003.  All Basis schools are following the same model and approach.  Yet for all that, there's no surfacing of "dangerous stress" that might lead to the kinds of breakdowns that the posters above have speculated about.[/quote]

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